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Patriarchs Eastern Catholic to the Burki meeting

Saw the national director of missions papacy in Lebanon, Father Raphael Zugheib in remarks to the news agency (Fides) Vatican, "that the death sentence on Sheikh Shiite Nimr by Saudi Arabia in the second of this month, will have disastrous consequences for Lebanon and the Middle East, and that the effects direct this provision reflected the deterioration of the institutional crisis in Lebanon, but that the disastrous effects are already taking place in all the conflict scenarios that exist in the Middle East, from Iraq to Syria and Yemen, according to the recipe.

He noted the father Zugheib that "continuing to resort to the veto power between the political blocs in Lebanon, which so far prevented the election of the President of the Republic, the vacant position since May 2014, had existed since before Christmas, with an attempt to expand consensus range around Suleiman Franjieh nomination" . The "That was the attempt with the support of Saudi Arabia, for this reason, has never received the support of the Shiite Hezbollah." Now, "and after what happened, the initiative taken on the Minister Suleiman Franjieh last breath," while Hezbollah leaders described the Saudi regime (the killer) b, "according to noted.

According to Zugheib, the "targeted provocation very strong by Riyadh, may have the effect of blocking the fragile peace projects that were seeking to resolve ongoing conflicts in the region," P "after such a strike, he began waving the collapse of the prospects for peace, it is likely that the raging more strongly conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Iraq fire, "he said.